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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D.

@annemakerofhats.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Fungal Biology at the University of Georgia | bioinformatics & genomics | she/her | opinions are my own & may not reflect the views of my employer or funding agencies | annehatmaker.com Fungi >>>

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Kayla Stoy @kaylastoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New paper with my postdoc advisor @wcratcliff.bsky.social. I love his creativity in putting together this video to summarize the work. Happy we had the chance to collaborate with each other!
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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spread the word! I’m looking to recruit a PhD student to grow the Paulinella project. Some details can be found here: www.vanettenlab.org/join
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Join! — Van Etten lab at UMD
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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France
I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…
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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NIH funding decisions should be made by scientific experts, not political appointees. Protecting rigorous peer review safeguards public trust, biomedical progress and U.S. scientific leadership. ➡️Learn more: www.asbmb.org/advocacy/pos... #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates
Graphic reading "Science Serves Us All" over a blue scientific background with the ASBMB logo.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026
These people inside NIH working on grants are really the best of the country, people who are not being paid big bucks but care about the mission; care about something bigger than themselves.
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Abigail Lind @abigailllind.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Come be my colleague! My department (Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech) is hiring a tenure-track professor in the area of Computational Genetics. The job posting is here: tinyurl.com/5fxwcds3
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Careers
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You all have been asking me for years if James Van Etten, discoverer of giant viruses, is my dad or uncle. He is not and we had never met until a month ago. Listen to this podcast episode to learn about Jim’s fascinating 60+ year career, why chloroviruses are cool, and if we are indeed related!
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Giant Algal Viruses with The J Van Ettens
Tiny Living Beings · Episode
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A decade ago, a “weird” kitten was found on a road near a Bolivian forest. Too small to be a housecat, he had a scrunched-up face, short round ears, long whiskers, & a coat of leopard-like spots. DNA analysis now reveals him as the very first of a newly discovered species & I think I'm in love. 😻🧬🧪👇
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My lab is hiring a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on machine learning, model misspecification, and population genetics! Flexible start-date! Learn more about the lab: smithlabbio.github.io Job Ad: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job... Please reach out if you have any questions!
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The Smith Lab — Mississippi State University
The Smith Lab at Mississippi State University studies diversification using genomic data, with a focus on terrestrial snails and slugs.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have released my most powerful & high-yielding corn yet. It has already escaped my field & invaded three soybean farms. I fear it will soon kill all humans. But rather than quit corn & work to stop the apocalypse, I'm releasing even better corn in 3 months. Meanwhile, please use corn responsibly.
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@jabbur.bsky.social yet more sad beige :(
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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The RAxML-NG v2.0 preprint is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... v2.0 features integrated model testing, fast branch support metrics, automatic parallelization, phylogenetic difficulty prediction, genotype evolution models, to name but the most important features. And it is A LOT FASTER of course
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RAxML-NG 2: Automatic model selection, novel tree search heuristics, and fast branch support metrics
RAxML-NG is a widely used tool for maximum likelihood based phylogenetic inference. In the seven years since the last RAxML-NG publication, we have continuously improved and extended the code. Here, w...
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Plants of the National Parks is available for pre-order from your favorite bookseller. geni.us/Ywmh #NationalParks #Plants #WildPlants #NPS #PlantsOfTheNationalParks #Botany #NativePlantsUSA #NatureBooks #PublicLands #PlantScience #NatureEducation
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We're looking for a plant pathologist 🌱 🍄 to join our department (cals.ncsu.edu/entomology-a...)! The position is fairly broad/open to different disciplines in plant pathology, but heavy in teaching. Please go to the following link for more info & to apply. jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/233...
A serviceberry twig with leaves and fruit, one of the fruit infested by a rust fungus a purple flowered clover with whitish powdery mildew growth on the leavesA shiny dark green magnolia leaf with lichenized algal leaf spot on it.
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Adam Steinbrenner @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley Submit applications by Sept 30 Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522
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Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Tanya Cheeke @tanyacheeke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New paper showing that it took 7 years post-inoculation to see effects on plant communities, highlighting the importance of longterm studies in restoration research esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Inoculation with old‐growth microbes improves restoration quality and reduces non‐native encroachment after seven years
Understanding the mechanisms that promote native seedling establishment in disturbed ecosystems is key to improving the biodiversity and function of landscape restorations. Over seven growing seasons...
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch. Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.
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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration! yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
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IMA Fungus @imafungus.pensoft.net · 09/09/2026
#Fungi sustain food, medicine & climate resilience, but #mycologists from low-income countries often can't afford to attend global conferences. The International Mycological Association is raising $30k for #IMC13 travel awards. You can help make fungal science more inclusive 👇 #gofundme #science
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Supporting Fungal Scientists From Low-Income Countries 
Fungi are essential to life on Earth, supporting food production, ecosystem health, medicine, and climate resilience. Yet many scientists studying fungi, especially those working in low-income countri...
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Jim Elser @drlimnology.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Would you like to work here? The search for the next director of Flathead Lake Bio Station is re-opened (search suspended last year due to admin issue). FLBS is in terrific shape, physically, financially, & academically with exciting prospects for the future. 🧪 Apply: apply.interfolio.com/192695
Colorful sunset over Flathead Lake as seen from Polson.  Flathead Lake Biological Station is about 16 miles up on the east shore.
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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our lab is looking for PhD students to join us in 2027 🎓🎉 The projects can be structured around our research directions: - Transposable element dynamics - Fungal pangenomics - ML/language model genomics applications - Pathogen adaptation More here pathogen-genomics.org ("Jobs") and please share! 🙏
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Evolutionary genomics of pathogens
Croll lab at University of Neuchatel. The lab of Daniel Croll wants to understand how pathogens evolve to cause disease. For this, we mainly focus on major crop pathogens to unravel mechanisms of rapi...
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In a few years perhaps we could all have 🎵 chestnuts roasting on an open fire 🎶
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
After years of testing, USDA has just approved releasing GMO American chestnut trees, potentially giving us the chance to bring back an iconic species destroyed in the early 20th century by an imported disease. (Chauvinistic note: I've had American chestnuts, and they are better than European ones.)
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USDA Approval Advances Efforts to Restore the American Chestnut
Efforts by researchers at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to restore the American chestnut tree to the American landscape took a significant leap forward with an approved desi...
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In a global first, Mexico approves use of RNA-based fungicide. Oifirax, created by GreenLight Biosciences, uses RNA molecules to kill the fungus responsible for powdery mildew on grapes. www.science.org/content/arti...
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In a global first, Mexico approves use of RNA-based fungicide
Oifirax, created by GreenLight Biosciences, uses RNA molecules to kill the fungus responsible for powdery mildew on grapes
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It ys trulye ynspiringe to see an outpouringe of love for a trulye goode person who did goode thinges and lyved a full and creatyve and free and lovinge lyfe. It ys a greate blessinge to be reminded of the love that love kan create.
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Julian Liber @liberjulian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For all the fungi hunters out there, the Heitman Lab at Duke University is looking for Cryptococcus luteus found associated with crust fungi on fallen logs. Every sample helps! #mycology
A wanted poster for the fungus Granulobasidium vellereum and its parasite Cryptococcis luteus. Searchers should check the underside of fallen logs (especially elm) for white to cream crusts on the bottom side. The parasite appears as pale-yellow circular patches on the fungal surface. If found, searchers should record the location, host, take a photo, and send the whole branch/piece in a paper bag to the Heitman lab.
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Elias Spiliotis @septinlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We're launching a search for two open-rank positions with preference for Assistant/Associate Professors in the Department of Cell Biology at University of Virginia. If you're a card-carrying cell biologist, consider applying here now: apply.interfolio.com/191024
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Bill Belichick Looking For A New Job Meme
ALT: Bill Belichick Looking For A New Job Meme
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Dr. Amy, PsyD @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · 25/08/2026
I've seen social media react to numerous high-profile deaths. Live your life like Dolly Parton.
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We have a (dry lab) Postdoc Position in Viral Genomics & Pathogen Surveillance here in wonderful and sunny San Diego 🏄‍♂️☀️! We're looking to continue to build our AI and broader infectious disease surveillance efforts, with a focus on our outbreak.info platform. Read more: andersen-lab.com/about/
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About | Andersen Lab
Learn more about the Andersen Lab, as well as jobs and career opportunities.
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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Assistant Professor - Plant Health & Microbe Interactions - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Title: Assistant Professor - Plant Health & Microbe Interactions Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Stockbridge Sch of Agriculture Work Lo...
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.
Interested in Polyploidy and Population Genetics?

Florida State University, Join the Gaynor Lab. My lab is open to both Ph.D. and master students through the Ecology and Evolution area in Biological Sciences at FSU - applications are due December 1st!
I also have funding to support a postdoctoral researcher and a technician during my first three years at FSU. The postdoctoral researcher will focus on polyploidy population genomics. The technician will help with lab work including flow cytometry for genome size estimation and DNA sequencing preparation.

If you are interested in joining the lab, please send me an email with a CV/resume and a brief explanation of your research interests and your career goals

Find out more at mlgaynor.com and email me at  shellyleegaynor at gmail.com
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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 20/08/2026
Today we share a follow-up to yesterday's announcement of an executive leadership transition at The Carpentries. We are also sharing further changes across the Core Team and our programmatic activities as part of a broader restructuring of The Carpentries. Details: carpentries.org/blog/2026/08...
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Changes to Core Team and Programmatic Activities at The Carpentries
Announcing Change and Continuity Yesterday we announced an executive leadership transition at The Carpentries. On 1 September 2026, Dr Kari L. Jordan will step down as Executive Director, and Associat...
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
FunDive designed a questionnaire with the goal to better understand motivations behind individuals joining and remaining engaged in #citizenscience projects in #mycology! Please complete it if you are a volunteer or share/forward to individuals who are: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Survey on motivation factors in volunteer mycology projects
Dear Respondent, This questionnaire was designed to investigate the primary reasons why individuals join and remain engaged in citizen science mycology projects. It aims to capture the motivations an...
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
BREAKING: It made the final cut. Congratulations, Michigan, you might have the best voting sticker of 2026.
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@jabbur.bsky.social 🤩
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Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New postdoc opportunity in our team! Topic is computational analysis of (meta)genomic data to study evolution of plant-microbiome interactions. Part of the AEGIS consortium (aegisearth.bio/en). Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... Please RT!
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Postdoc on computational (meta)genomic analysis
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges for global food security, requiring new approaches to understand and harness the natural diversity that enables plants and their associated microbiomes...
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481
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Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Nina Friedman @ngfriedman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Visa holders are a vital part of the U.S. biomedical research enterprise — for example, at NIH, 60% of postdocs are visiting. These scientists contribute incredible, indispensable talent and expertise.
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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
grateful to have received the lab's first NSF grant to study cyclical processes of speciation with new theory and tools (applied to Melanesian birds). ad to come, but I'll be looking for a postdoc with computational biology chops—please reach out! (and repost) www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
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Jessie MacAlpine @jessiemacalpine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🌟Applications are open for the upcoming GRS/GRC on the Immunology of Fungal Infections in Ventura, California! Make sure to submit your abstract by September 1 to be considered for an oral presentation: www.grc.org/immunology-o...
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2027 Immunology of Fungal Infections Conference GRC
The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Immunology of Fungal Infections will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I am thrilled to share that the biology dept at Hamilton College is hiring a TT Evolutionary Ecologist to start in fall of 2027! This position would teach an upper level Evolution lect/lab, a section of Bio-100, rotate through our 200-level Eco/Evo course, and a seminar. apply.interfolio.com/190184
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Evolution Students @ssegrad.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
1/4 In today's funding climate, every grant and fellowship matters. Based on feedback from our GSAC Community Check-In Survey, we're building a growing hub of graduate & postdoctoral funding opportunities and job boards to make them easier to find. 🧵
Funding and job board curated by Dieter Lukas and Pro Manna
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 28/07/2026
Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD
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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 23/07/2026
Also in 1862, Lincoln’s “People’s Agency” the USDA was created, with the goal of improving farmers’ capabilities and hence the reliability of the food supply *including a mission of research* to figure out what worked best. First model of a research based agency. 3/?
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 18/07/2026
Given the lack of details provided by Taylor Farms thus far, Consumer Reports' food safety experts are advising folks in the 27 states implicated by the recall to discard ALL iceberg lettuce until we know more about where the parasite-linked products ended up www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
A map of the 27 states impacted by the recall: AL, AR, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WI.
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Kaia Mattioli @kaiamattioli.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
ok my mid-career academic tweeps: if you were going back in time to start as an assistant professor again, what would you tell your younger self? would you do anything differently? anything you did that you think was an A+ decision? give us soon-to-be new PIs any & all advice!
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